中文摘要：

当代美国华裔女作家伍慧明的小说《望岩》以及任碧莲的《莫娜在希望之乡》,分别描述了美国华人杰克和莫娜对伦理身份的探寻与选择过程。杰克处于美国政府对华人实施“坦白计划”的背景下,经历了伦理身份错位、缺失到找寻和确定的历程,最终成为美国公民;而已经是美国公民的第二代华裔莫娜,则对家庭和社会赋予她的既定的“华裔”身份不满,自主选择了犹太伦理身份,探索对伦理身份进行自由选择的可能性。二者伦理身份选择的不同,既反映了美国城市中居住在不同社区的两个社会经济群体的华人的生存环境及伦理身份的差异,也反映出两代美国华人伦理身份意识的转变及华人伦理身份观念从二元到多元的变化。《望岩》直面历史,《莫娜在希望之乡》观念新颖,他们都为华裔美国文学创作开辟了新路。

英文摘要：

Two novels--Steer Toward Rock and Mona in the Promised Land written by modem Chinese-American women writers Fae Myenne Ng and Gish Jen respectively--describe the process of Jack＇s and Mona＇s pursuit and choice of self ethical identity. After the process of displacement, missing, pursuit for and confirmation of his ethical identity, Jack, who lives during the Chinese Confession Program period, finally becomes a Chinese-American legally; while Mona, already a second generation Chinese-American, selects actively the Jewish ethical identity as to explore the possibility of freely choosing ethical identity for the discontent with her inherent ethical identity given by the family and society. Due to their different ethical environments, two characters make different ethical identity choices, which reflect the d transformation of ethical identity consciousness in two Chinese-American generations and the changes from dualism to diversity in their ethical identity concepts. Two novels open up new areas for the creation of Chinese-American literature, as Steer Toward Rock aims at the history directly and Mona in the Promised Land holds new ideas.